Where Spurs may want to trade Kawhi Leonard is bad news for Sixers

Where Spurs may want to trade Kawhi Leonard is bad news for Sixers

We can place this one in the “incredibly bad news” category when it comes to the Kawhi Leonard sweepstakes.

While the Philadelphia 76ers have seemingly kept their hat in the ring when it comes to swinging a potential deal for the San Antonio Spurs superstar, it seems Gregg Popovich and company have their eyes locked elsewhere.

Leonard may want to go to the Los Angeles Lakers, but one big thing holding up a trade could be the fact that Sixers’ rival, the Boston Celtics, have the assets the Spurs “most covet,” per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

The Spurs are fully engaged in trade talks with several teams on Kawhi Leonard, including the Lakers and Celtics, league sources tell ESPN. Boston has long had the assets that the Spurs most covet in a potential Leonard trade.

One positive to take away from this is the fact that the Sixers may very well be one of the teams engaged in trade talks with the Spurs currently. They are right there with the Celtics in terms of teams holding the most appealing assets and could put together a very strong package.

Time will tell, but one thing Sixers fans can agree on is that Leonard landing with the Celtics would be a pretty terrible outcome for the situation.